I cannot do it.
I often wish I had a brit/african market Hilux for a large number of reasons, the predominant one being the shifter/radio/heater controls etc. are on the driver’s left side.
See, I’m not a big pistol shooter, these days, and I never was too big on weak hand drills. So if I were to- say, shoot a big fucking hole in my radio, the bullet would plow through the dashboard, the internals of the radio, punch a hole in the firewall, and probably the back of the #4 cyliinder
If I could shoot effectively left handed, I could probably reach through the steering wheel and bust a cap in the truck’s radio, and merely ventilate the AC system and possibly the heater core, worst case taking out a tire, and that could be replaced with the spare. So I could keep on keeping on down the road. Likewise, if I had a RHD vehicle, I could have shot the damned thing and only affected the passengers side of the vehicle without too much trouble.
For this reason, l turn off the radio whenever they are playing quotes from Obama Or Biden. And I can’t listen to Hannity anymore at all, not like I was ever a big listener.
So. For the same reasons, I cannot watch this debate. I bought this little 12″ color so the wife could watch her soaps and movies in the comfort of our air conditoned bedroom (THe only AC room in the house) when she was heavy with child. The heat must have been unbearable for her, so having a room with a TV and an AC unit was a lifesaver. It’s not a bad little TV, with a good picture, and I have behind me an M4gery, an M1 carbine, a couple 22 revolvers, a 1911, and a 1917 enfield. Those are just the ones I can REACH without leaving my chair. And I don’t want to elvis this TV.
So I tried, I honestly did. Every time I hear Uncle Joe opening his yap, it makes me want to blow a hole in this innocent little orion tube. And it just doesnt’ deserve it.
That was a brilliant lead up to the punch line! LOL
Og, Toyota imported a diesel Hilux here in the late 70s. I had a gas 74 Hilux at the time, but I tried the diesel when it came out. It was peppy enough, but the toy auto company insisted on bringing in only the deluxe, long-bed, SR-5 models, which cost a third more than the base model’s $4200 or so. Too spendy for me, and my 74 was still running like a top, so I passed. I had a Peugeot 504D diesel car at the time and had gotten used to anemic 70-horse engines, so the slow Hilux would have been more of the same. It did get upwards of 28 MPG on 50-cent diesel fuel, though…
I used to have the same reaction back when Alan Colmes was on a local radio station.
One day he pissed me off so bad that if I’d had one of them new-fangled radios that you can easily pull out the dash I woulda pulled it out, thrown it on the highway and run over the sumbitch.
I never listened to him again. EVER. Life’s too short for that shit.
I miss Mazda’s diesel pickup with the little Perkins diesel. It was nearly perfect and had triangular vent windows, like a pickup should.